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RUDY YORK |
THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO, PART 2 ...
A POWERFUL RED SOX TEAM FAILS
IN THE WORLD SERIES ....
Rudy York's 3-run homer wins it for the Sox
August 9, 1946 ... Rudy York smashed a zooming home run that rocketed Dave Ferriss and the Red Sox to a 4 to 3
triumph over the Yankees before 63,000 speechless fans at the Stadium. The Sox were trailing 3-1 when Rudy connected with two outs and the count at 3 and 2 in the fifth inning.
Just ahead of York was Dom DiMaggio who had laced a triple into right, that scooted by Johnny Lindell, after which Ted Williams drew his 117th free pass of the season. The home run pitch was served up to York by Floyd Bevens, a hard luck Yankee pitcher, as Rudy had been an easy out on his
two previous at-bats. York's drive soared over the head of Charlie Keller, up against the left-field railing and disappeared deep into the darkness of the grandstand. It was his 14th home run of the season which boosted him back to the RBI runner up spot, with 93. The win widened the Red Sox
first place lead to 14 full lengths, their longest of the year.
Happiest of all was Dave Ferriss, who notched his first win in "the house that Ruth built". Dave gave up only five hits, but two of his four walks preceded Aaron Robinsons two smashes. He walked Joe DiMaggio to start the second and then Robinson deposited his 11th homer deep into the
right-center field bleachers.
The Red Sox got one run back in the fourth inning when Johnny Pesky started off with a two base hit and was brought in on a groundout by Dom and a sacrifice fly by Williams, to cut the score to 2-1. Tommy Henrich opened up the home half with a base hit and then was erased when Joe D. ripped
into an around-the-horn doubleplay. Keller walked and Robinson tried to duplicate his homer, but this time the drive landed against the concrete wall to bring in another Yankee run.
Yankee fans got really excited when Keller walked again with two down in the six and up came Robinson. But this time Aaron nubbed a little grounder down to York at first. Robinson tried again with one out in the ninth, but Wally Moses camped under his long fly ball a few feet away from the
fence in short right. After Lindell singled, Rizzuto rolled harmlessly out Bobby Doerr, and Ferriss had won his 12th straight complete game. |
